She became known as "the girl with two brain cells"- one for breathing and one for standing up.
Dragan Armansky recollects the circumstances under which Lisbeth Salander came to his employment. She was almost forcefully recommend to him by a contact. He thought that as a school drop out she would be docile, but she became a nuisance and began to irritate others. She was not social and while she did her duties, she wouldn't seem to care much about it. She never mentioned any ambitions or inclination to do anything else and so people began to presume that she was mentally challenged to understand anything. She seemed to be capable only of standing up and breathing, which is rather ironic as Lisbeth proved to be more capable in technology and mental activity than regular people.
Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.
Lisbeth says this to Direct Frode on his enquiry about Mikael Blomkovist if he has anything to hide in his life that might cause him loss of integrity or may be criminal in nature. Frode had been trying to employ Blomkovist for a task and wanted to know if there was anything in his life that might jeopardize the thing. Lisbeth replies neutrally that everyone has secrets. No one is innocent in today's world. A person is called good only till his secrets are hidden and once they are revealed, he loses his integrity.
It's a reminder.
Lisbeth says this to the tattoo artist as she asks for a tattoo of a thin band round her ankle. She had just been raped and assaulted by Advokat Bjurman, her legal guardian. She had been planning to record a video of him molesting her but she is taken by surprise when he grows sadistically violent. She is hurt, physically and mentally, but tries to use this experience to be more careful. Unlike other rape victims, who try to forget the act, she decides to get a tattoo at her ankle, where she was bound, to serve as a reminder to her encounter.
It's not an insane serial killer who read his Bible wrong. It's just a common or garden bastard who hates women.
Lisbeth says this to Mikael as they are profiling the killer who killed women all over Sweden as a part of Biblical rites. They discover that all the victims were women with Jewish names and were found in a state that would be suggestive of a Biblical passage. While such men are commonly defended as of reading the sacred texts in a wrong way or of taking them too literally, Lisbeth feels that the man is just a sadist who likes to hurt women, simply because they are women. The Bible is just a defense to explain his inhumane urges.
I just think that it's pathetic that creeps always have someone else to blame.
Lisbeth says this to Mikael after they are attacked by Martin Venger, in which he subsequently died trying to get away. Mikael feels that Martin had the urges to rape and kill women due to this upbringing. But, Lisbeth who herself was raise in antisocial and abusive, didn't turn out to be abusive herself. She feels that misogynist men like Martin get a defense by blaming their upbringing, rather than their own free will.
